@icedquinn @mk @Autumn @Nazareno USA was a total dck for playing with the SWIFT system, but still, LATAM countries are usually poor and staying neutral is usually the best for them.

I don't see any benefit for Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Jamaica, Nicaragua, etc etc, to join BRICS. At best, it serves well when you can't pay international loans, but your country will be isolated.

Just look how good been NATO for Europe, whole Europe bleeds because energy and heating costs. Specially now when "smart germans" decided to shut down Nuclear reactors because some autistic Swedish teen said so